At The Assembly Line, we connect places and businesses with the people around them.
We are project managers, advisers and practitioners who create opportunities for businesses to thrive, bring buildings back to life and deliver projects that attract people back to high streets and markets.
Led by Diane Cunningham we revitalise, relaunch and animate places and spaces to create resilient town centres, markets and businesses.
We specialise in strategic advice and project management, working with local authorities, private and third-sector organisations on projects that impact high streets, building and growing relationships between places, businesses and community.
Using our expertise from the public and private sectors, we help bring high street buildings back to life, launch and improve markets, create viable commercial and operational models and develop plans to ensure businesses thrive.
We build communications to reach a wide range of stakeholders, developing action plans that are practical, deliverable, and viable.
Bringing together the best team, we also create and deliver campaigns that increase opportunities for businesses, connecting them with clients and customers.
We advise, create and manage projects from inception to evaluation in a no-nonsense, practical way, making sense of disparate strands to deliver cost-effective results.
With colleagues in London and Liverpool, we work in places and with businesses across the UK.
We launch and improve street markets, support enterprise, and engage businesses around high streets.
Our founder, Diane Cunningham, was an appointed Expert to the government’s High Streets Task Force, an inaugural London Market Board member and is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management.
We help businesses of many sizes, financial services companies, and those working with local government.
Working with people in senior, client-facing roles, we advise on marketing and business development, particularly in regulated services businesses and with owner managers on how to grow sales.
Featured Projects & Insights
We work on projects across the UK, from neighbourhood high streets to market towns and city centres and with businesses of many sizes from those in The City to start-ups.
Delivering commercial and community vision
The Grade II listed Kendal Market Hall had steadily lost customers and traders. The council had secured funding to help revitalise the town centre and plans included refurbishing the Market Hall building and putting the outdoor Market Place back at the heart of the town centre.
2024 saw us working on projects across the country; reviving high streets, guiding partnership structures, considering the future of struggling markets and interim roles in operations to complete a park project and drive forward new projects.